Molecular Biology Of The Cell 6th Edition by Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, David Morgan, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter

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3 Several negative-strand viruses carry their genome as a set of discrete RNA segments. Examples include influ- enza virus (eight segments), Rift Valley fever virus (three segments), Hantavirus (three segments), and Lassa virus (two segments), to name a few. Why does segmentation of the genome provide a strong evolutionary advantage for these viruses?